Ralph DiClemente

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Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Dr. Ralph DiClemente was trained as a Health Psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco where he received his PhD in 1984 after completing a ScM at the Harvard School of Public Health. He earned his undergraduate degree at the City University of New York.

Dr. DiClemente’s research has four key foci:

Developing interventions to reduce the risk of HIV/STD among vulnerable populations
Developing interventions to enhance vaccine uptake among high-risk adolescents and women, such as HPV and influenza vaccine
Developing implementation science interventions to enhance the uptake, adoption and sustainability of HIV/STD prevention programs in the community
Developing diabetes screening and behavior change interventions to identify people with diabetes who are unaware of their disease status as well as reduce the risk of diabetes among vulnerable populations.

He has focused on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches that are designed to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability.

Dr. DiClemente is the author of ten CDC-defined, evidence-based interventions for adolescents and young African-American women and men. He is the author of more than 540 peer-review publications, 150 book chapters, and 21 books. He serves as a member of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.

Previously, Dr. DiClemente served as the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He was also Associate Director of the Center for AIDS Research, and was previously Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Dr. DiClemente is Past President of the Georgia chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health & Medicine. He previously served as a member of the CDC Board of Scientific Counselors, and the NIMH Advisory Council.

Education

BA, The City College of the City University of New York (CCNY), New York, NY

ScM, Behavioral Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PhD, Health Psychology, University of California San Francisco Center for Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Areas of research and study

Community Interventions

Diabetes

HIV/AIDS

Implementation science

Influenza

Psychology

Publications

Factors associated with sexual arousal, sexual sensation seeking and sexual satisfaction among female African American adolescents

Gang Norms and Risky Sex Among Adolescents With a History of Detention

Gender based violence as a risk factor for HIV-associated risk behaviors among female sex workers in Armenia

Impact of a physician recommendation and parental immunization attitudes on receipt or intention to receive adolescent vaccines

Improving health outcomes for IPV-exposed women living with HIV

Wingood, G. M., Diclemente, R. J., & Seth, P. (n.d.).

Publication year

2013

Journal title

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volume

Issue

Page(s)

1-2

10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182a29f1b

Improving the validity of self-reported sexual behavior: No easy answers

In their own words: Romantic relationships and the sexual health of young African American women

Interpersonal- and community-level predictors of intimate partner violence perpetration among African American men

Interventions to reduce alcohol use among HIV-Infected individuals: A review and critique of the literature

It takes 2: Partner attributes associated with sexually transmitted infections among adolescents

Masculinity, condom use self-efficacy and abusive responses to condom negotiation: The case for HIV prevention for heterosexual African-American men

Motivations for Secondary Abstinence Among African American Females at Risk for HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infections

Multi-level factors associated with pregnancy among urban adolescent women seeking psychological services

Parent-adolescent communication scale

Sales, J. M. D., Milhausen, R. R., & DiClemente, R. J. (n.d.). In Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (1–).

Publication year

2013

Page(s)

139-140

Parental human papillomavirus vaccine survey (PHPVS): Nurse-led instrument development and psychometric testing for use in research and primary care screening

Partner communication scale

Sales, J. M. D., Milhausen, R. R., & DiClemente, R. J. (n.d.). In Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (1–).

Publication year

2013

Page(s)

137-138

Ralph DiClemente